Damn it! I have been pushing Swindle every year and you guys had to make him this years Erector! He actually deserves to be in the hall of fame, unlike Wheeljack or Arcee. I'd think Hot Rod would have been an auto-inductee though. My vote's going to Sky-Byte.

Okay, looking at Arcee's bio, it's clear that Hasbro simply doesn't care anymore. They make no attempts to have her bio make any lick of sense, and so they just did whatever they wanted and made her bio one big clustermuck of nonsense.

Wheeljack's and Rodimus' bios aren't as bad, but they're borderlining.

Megs and Sky-Byte at least were given decency in their bios, but they put the wrong Sky-Byte in the pic. That bio is clearly about RiD Sky-byte, while pictured is Wings Universe (G1) Sky-Byte, who never underwent any of the events described in that bio.

Godzillabot Primal wrote:How are we supposed to vote? their pages have no buttons

The voting has not started yet.

Aluus wrote:So Sky-byte is this year's Erector?

No, Sky-Byte is as legitimate a choice as Waspinator was. He was a lovable character.

TheForgottenTaxi wrote:Can one of the people pushing this Sky-Byte thing please explain the joke to the rest of us?

I'm not pushing for him (as much as I am for Megs), but I will explain it. First off, it's no joke. Of all the characters to appear in the Robots in Disguise cartoon, Sky-byte became a fan favorite. He was a very likeable character, as he was hilarious and had a charming personality. He's another comic relief character like Waspinator, except with a little more of his head screwed on right. And thus, those who took a liking to him voted for him.

TheForgottenTaxi wrote:(Also, who the heck writes these things? They're nigh-unreadable, especially with all the random CAPITALIZED NOUNS.

Um, EVERY single English-language Transformers bio has been written like that since 1984. They ALWAYS capitalize the important copyrighted/trademarked names and terms to show that they own them. It's what they do and have done for the past 25+ years.

TheForgottenTaxi wrote:Since when is Rattbat Arcee's "great-nephew"? How could a Transformer even have a great-nephew?

Look again. it said "Rattrap", not "Ratbat".

In the Transmutate episode of Beast Wars, Rattrap exclaimed, "What in the name of my Great Aunt Arcee is going on here?!" It was meant to be just an in-joke to the fact that Susan Blu voiced Transmutate, but then a Fun Pub comic that took place post-Beast Machines had Botcon 2001 Arcee and BM Rattrap run into each other and have an awkward moment, as another joke reference to that line of his from before. Here, though, it's... not a joke.

TheForgottenTaxi wrote:And what does this even mean?"Unfortunately, one time RODIMUS got in OPTIMUS PRIME’S way with disastrous results.")

Go watch the 1986 The Transformers: The Movie.

AutobotMR2 wrote:The only entrant I have to question is Sky-Byte.....REALLY?!?!?!?!? Ah well, whoever gets in is all good with me. Alas no Devy...

Delicon wrote:Sky-Byte? That's gotta be a joke...he's not even one of the 500 most popular Transformers characters

Godzillabot Primal wrote:

Can one of the people pushing this Sky-Byte thing please explain the joke to the rest of us?

He is one of the least liked characters in the TF universe, it isn't that funny a joke.

T-Macksimus wrote:I'll vote for G1 Wheelie before I ever consider Sky-Byte. Seriously, who the slag even added that guy to the list???

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

Hell yeah Rodimus! wait what the hells with the bio? It sounds like its for hotrod but just barely and since this is Rodimus(look at the picture) and not HotRod wheres the fact that he took down unicron, united cybertron, and kicked Galvatron ass? Damn you hasbro, start getting people who know the franchise to do this kind of stuff. None the less i am glad to see HotRod get some recognition and hope he wins. And im auprised Skybite got in, i was going to list him but we already got Waspinator and we dont need another comic relief character right now. Arcees probably going to win but im pulling for HotRod/Rodimus, surprising i know.

Megatron Wolf wrote:Hell yeah Rodimus! wait what the hells with the bio? It sounds like its for hotrod but just barely and since this is Rodimus(look at the picture) and not HotRod wheres the fact that he took down unicron, united cybertron, and kicked Galvatron ass? Damn you hasbro, start getting people who know the franchise to do this kind of stuff.

Hello? They lost the name "Hot Rod" years ago. That's why they call him "Rodimus" now. This isn't "Rodimus Prime", it's "Rodimus".

"Hot Rod" = "Rodimus"

"Rodimus Prime" = "Rodimus Prime"

Plus, it's not like they don't bruingup the guy's Prime form in the bio. But they modeled the bio after his Hot Rod self. They just don't own that name anymore and so cannot use it. That's why they used "Rodimus" without the "Prime" part.

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

Wow! No love for Sky-byte, huh? I'll have you guys know I'm pretty fond of him myself, and I know several others who are too. I wasn't aware the other sites voted him enough to get him in though. How many votes did he have on seib.com? like 5? :/ o well, he's in for the running now. I'll probably still go Megs, but had I known there was a movement for sky-byte I might have joined in for that. Maybe I'll alternate voting for these two.... hmmm.

As for the others, especially not enthused about them thanks to the bios. Me no likey this "all one continuity" idea. X(

Rodimus would probably be my #3 though. I'm not fond of him as prime, but I love Hot Rod.

Yes, Rodimus gets in! Sky-byte? Really? WJ is okay, and Arcce's bio didn't make any sense at all . BW Megs is alright . But I will go 4 Rodimus all the way. He destroyed Unicron, mopped the floor with Galvatron, and reunited Cybertron. All in one day. It don't get much better than that.

OK G1 FANS LISTEN UP!!! As I see it now this will probably end up with Wheeljack and Rodimus splitting the vote we HAVE to pick one to get behind or another BW character will sneak in. I Rodimus should go in since he was a Prime but I'll go however you want. Just don't tell Beast Wars fans what's going on.

I think G1 fans have too much integritiy to comprimise the choice they truely believe in simply for the sake of competing in the HOF. But if I really had to choose someone beside Arcee, I choose Wheeljack.And Rodimus got to do all that crazy stuff simply because the Matrix chose him. He might have fought through a long journey, but he didn't win anything solely on his own power. He had help. JUST SAYING.

He did look badass fighting the sharkticons tho.

THE POWERS OF DARKNESS ARE A MORE POWERFUL WEAPON THAN ALL THE TOYS YOUR SCIENCE CAN MUSTERDie, Autobots!

MINDVVIPE wrote:I think G1 fans have too much integritiy to comprimise the choice they truely believe in simply for the sake of competing in the HOF. But if I really had to choose someone beside Arcee, I choose Wheeljack.And Rodimus got to do all that crazy stuff simply because the Matrix chose him. He might have fought through a long journey, but he didn't win anything solely on his own power. He had help. JUST SAYING.

He did look badass fighting the sharkticons tho.

Between you and I I really wanted Swindle but I'll take anyone else over BW Megatron

Of these though, my vote would go to Sky-Byte, followed by... um... maybe Rodimus, then Megs, Wheeljack, and finally Arcee. I never really liked Arcee until Prime. And either way, these are all pretty good choices and would be a toss up to me.

I'd be down with Scorponok being inducted, but man would it be a **** to see them splice videos of him with bay-verse scorponok. It would be like... wooo power, all that might.. and then scenes of basically a pet to bigger Decepticons.

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That's ok, they can just induct G1 and Energon Scorponok. BW characters are being split from the regular cast (see Megatron) I assume because their personalities and what not differ greatly for the most part compared to their namesakes, so BW Scorp wouldn't have to be included. And movie Scoroponok isn't even close to his previous incarnations, so he probably wouldn't be a part of the "green and purple Scorponok" induction, had there been, or will be one.

Question: Why doesnt Grimlock just get an automatic induction like Prime and Bumblebee got ? He is up there probally in the top 10 favorites of all time.

Edit: just realized Grimlocks getting inducted. Like I said before, Last years losers are this years inductees. Of course we will be seeing the same clips from last year at Botcon this year. It would be funny if somebody switches the footage as a joke and we see Shia Labeouf getting beat up on the big screen

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

Well... I'm gonna have to go against everything I said about a BW character getting in this year, I'm voting for Megatron. Of all of em, he's my favorite. Unless I can vote for more than 1 character, can I?